Empty smile

Verse 1

I wear the daylight like a borrowed name,

Painting over cracks no one can explain.

Every laugh echoes through a hollow room,

Flowers in my hands while my heart won't bloom.

Pre-Chorus

If you read between the lines I hide,

You'd find the storms I keep inside.

Chorus

I'm hiding my pain behind an empty smile,

Walking through the fire, pretending all the while.

Everybody sees the light upon my face,

But no one hears the silence I embrace.

I'm breaking where the world can't see,

Holding up a version that was never really me.

If these walls could speak, they'd tell my story true—

An empty smile is all I have to show to you.

Verse 2

Mirrors know the truth I leave behind,

Pieces of a heart I never seem to find.

Every "I'm okay" is another disguise,

A fading constellation in forgotten skies.

Bridge

Maybe one day I'll let the mask fall down,

Trade the borrowed joy for solid ground.

Even if my voice begins to shake,

I'll learn that healing starts when I don't have to fake.

Final Chorus

No more hiding pain behind an empty smile,

No more losing pieces mile after mile.

If tomorrow brings a softer dawn,

I'll find the strength to finally carry on.

The scars may stay, but they won't define

The hope that's growing one heartbeat at a time.

Until that day, I'll hold on through the night,

Believing even broken souls can find the light.

Outro

The smile may fade, the truth remains,

Hope can still grow through hidden pain.